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How big was a Phytosaur? Mass estimates of an extinct clade of Late Triassic archosaurs based on New Mexican fossils and modern crocodiles
A. B. Heckert1, G. Hurlburt2, J. O. Farlow3 and K. E. Zeigler1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Biology Department, California State University, Bakersfield, 9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield,
Revised faunal list and significance of the Upper Triassic (Revueltian:Early-Mid Norian) Snyder Quarry, north-central New Mexico
A. B. Heckert1, K. E. Zeigler1, S. G. Lucas1, A. P. Hunt1 and L. F. Rinehart1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104-1375 The Snyder quarry, in the Painted
Sulfur redox reactions: Hydrocarbons, native sulfur, Mississippi Valley-type deposits, and sulfuric acid karst, Delaware Basin, New Mexico and Texas
Carol A. Hill Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 17 El Arco Drive, Albuquerque, NM, 87123 Sulfuric acid karst should be considered as an integral part of the evolution of petroleum-evaporite basins. In
Cave and karst studies at the beginning of the 21st century: The New Mexico connection
Louise D. Hose National Cave and Karst Research Institute, 1400 University Drive, Carlsbad, NM, New Mexico, 88220, LHose@cemrc.org Once mostly dismissed as the homes of unpleasant guano deposits, curious but economically worthless mineral displays, and
America’s National Cave and Karst Research Institute 2003: The gearing up phase
Louise D. Hose1, Zelda Chapman Bailey1, Lewis Land2 and Penny Boston3 1National Cave and Karst Research Institute, 1400 University Drive, Carlsbad, NM, 88220, LHose@cemrc.org 2New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, CEMRC, 1400 University
Simulation of pre-development ground-water flow in the basin-fill aquifer of the Tularosa Basin, south-central New Mexico
G. F. Huff U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico State University, Dept. 3ARP, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, gfhuff@usgs.gov The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the City of Alamogordo, New Mexico and Holloman Air Force Base
A new locality for Middle Jurassic fish from the Todilto Formation, north-central New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1 and Alex Downs2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology, Ghost Ranch Conference Center, HC 77, Box 1, Abiquiu, NM, 87510-9601
Herbivorous dinosaur specimens from the Upper Triassic (Revueltian) Bull Canyon Formation of east-central New Mexico and west Texas
Adrian P. Hunt1, Andrew B. Heckert, Spencer G. Lucas and Kate E. Zeigler 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 The Bull Canyon Formation (Upper Triassic: Revueltian) of east-central
New tetrapod tracksite, Upper Triassic Sloan Canyon Formation, Union County, New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1, Spencer G. Lucas1 and Martin G. Lockley2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Geology Department, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, 80217 The vast
A large hadrosaur track from the Fruitland Formation (Late Cretaceous: Campanian), northwestern New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1, Spencer G. Lucas1 and Martin G. Lockley2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Geology Department, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, 80217 The Late
Selachian-dominated vertebrate fossil assemblage from the Late Cretaceous Pictured Cliffs Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Sally C. Johnson1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 In the San Juan Basin, the uppennost strata of the Pictured Cliff Sandstone record the
Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous Anapra Sandstone at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dona Ana County, New Mexico
Eric Kappus1, Spencer G. Lucas2, Andrew B. Heckert2 and Adrian P. Hunt2 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 79968 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road
Stratigraphy of units QBT1G-QBT3 of the Tshirege Member of the Bandelier Tuff in the north-central to northeastern portion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico
Danielle K. Katcher1, Alexis Lavine1, Claudia J. Lewis1, Jamie N. Gardner1 and Jennifer E. Wilson1 1Environmental Geology and Risk Analysis Group, EES-9, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, dkatcher@lanl.gov We conducted detailed stratigraphic studies
Problems with the existing stratigraphic nomenclature of the Santa Fe Group in the Espanola Basin and suggested revisions
Daniel J. Koning Rt. 1, Box 28A, Santa Cruz, NM, 87567,, danchikoning@yahoo.com Recent mapping of the Santa Fe Group near Espanola, N.M., elucidates the stratigraphy of the Espanola Basin and underscores some long-standing problems regarding
The Bursum Formation and a Late Pennsylvanian unconformity in the southern Cooke’s Range, Luna County, New Mexico
Karl Krainer1, Spencer G. Lucas2 and Garner L. Wilde3 1Institute for Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, Innsbruck A-6020, Austria 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 3 5
Role of evaporite karst in regional ground water circulation in the lower Pecos Valley
Lewis A. Land New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Carlsbad, NM Natural ground water discharge occurs from a series of cenotes, or sinkhole lakes, along the east side of the Pecos River floodplain
Structural geology of the north-central to northeastern portion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico (abs.)
Alexis Lavine1, Claudia J. Lewis1, Danielle Katcher1, Jamie N. Gardner1 and Jennifer Wilson1 1Environmental Geology and Risk Analysis Group, EES-9, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, alavine@lanl.gov Geologic mapping in the north-central to northeastern
Amphisauropus from the Lower Permian Abo Formation, Cerros de Amado, Socorro County, central New Mexico
Allan J. Lerner1, Spencer G. Lucas1 and Sebastian Voigt2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Geiseltal museum, Martin-Luther University, Domstrasse 5, Halle D-06108, GERMANY Amphisauropus, a tetrapod footprint
A new Late Paleocene tillodont mammal from the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and the origin of tillodonts
Shirley A. Libed1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, albinque@earthlink.net 2New I Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque,
First year’s data from tiltmeters installed around the margins of historic uplift, centered above the Socorro magma body, Rio Grande rift, New Mexico
David W. Love1, Bruce Allen1, Richard Chamberlin1 and William Haneberg2 1New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Haneberg Geoscience, 4434 SE
Water partitioning at the soil-bedrock interface of hillslopes
Huade Guan1 and John L. Wilson1 1Department of Earth & Environmental Science New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Variably saturated, steady state numerical simulations were conducted on 100-meter long conceptual hillslopes
Luminescence and radioisotope chronology of the Late Quaternary Mescalero Sands, southeastern New Mexico
Stephen A. Hall1, Ronald J. Goble2 and Hewitt W. Jeter3 1Red Rock Geological Enterprises, 17 Esquina Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87508 2Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. of Nebraska- Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68588 3Mass Spec Services, P.O.
A comparison of temper material in Santa Fe black-on-white and corrugated pottery sherds with local geology formations at Tecolote Pueblo (LA 296)
Therese Hardesty1, Robert Mishler1 and Jennifer Lindline2 1Southwest Studies Program, New Mexico Highlands University, P.O. Box 9000, Las Vegas, NM, 87701 2Environmental Geology Program, New Mexico Highlands University, P.O. Box 9000, Las Vegas, NM, 87701
Edopoid postcrania from the Red Tanks Member of the Bursum Formation, Lucero uplift, central New Mexico
Susan K. Harris1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Partially articulated material that represents the anterior dorsal vertebral column and most I of the